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Single feed

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- Oluwademilade Afolabi
mAh is the worst way to compare power banks — this overlooked spec tells the truth

Comparing batteries by this metric is a bit like judging cars by cup holders. [...]

- Afam Onyimadu
I wasted years optimizing my SSD for nothing — Windows was already doing it

I was making Windows slower, and the drive was barely benefiting. [...]

- Dan Selcke
I got to watch House of the Dragon Season 3 early — It's bigger, bolder, and won't please everyone

If you want more action, you'll be happy. If you want the show the books, you'll be conditionally mollified. [...]

- Gavin Phillips
I benchmarked Quad9, NextDNS, and Cloudflare, and the winner wasn't the big name

Multiple testing locations and it still wasn't completely clear. [...]

- Tashreef Shareef
I never open a new Obsidian vault without making these changes first

Don't touch Obsidian until you've done this. [...]

Multiple feeds

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  • Podcast
  • MakeUseOf
- David Pierce
Snap’s Specs look good on nobody

Snap's new smart glasses are probably the most impressive bit of face-computer technology we've seen. They're not VR-headset huge; they don't have a big charging puck; thanks to Snap's many… [...]

- Nilay Patel
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in… [...]

- Nilay Patel
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use

Today, I’m talking with Adam Bry, who is CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. Before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one… [...]

- David Pierce
The impossible dream of the universal remote

You don't really ever have to explain why a universal remote is a good idea. You have a bunch of stuff that needs controlling; this thing controls them all. Many… [...]

- David Pierce
Siri is good now??

You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why… [...]

- Oluwademilade Afolabi
mAh is the worst way to compare power banks — this overlooked spec tells the truth

Comparing batteries by this metric is a bit like judging cars by cup holders. [...]

- Afam Onyimadu
I wasted years optimizing my SSD for nothing — Windows was already doing it

I was making Windows slower, and the drive was barely benefiting. [...]

- Dan Selcke
I got to watch House of the Dragon Season 3 early — It's bigger, bolder, and won't please everyone

If you want more action, you'll be happy. If you want the show the books, you'll be conditionally mollified. [...]

- Gavin Phillips
I benchmarked Quad9, NextDNS, and Cloudflare, and the winner wasn't the big name

Multiple testing locations and it still wasn't completely clear. [...]

- Tashreef Shareef
I never open a new Obsidian vault without making these changes first

Don't touch Obsidian until you've done this. [...]

With Grid and Custom template

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  • Mobile
  • Android
Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew… [...]

Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans

The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the… [...]

The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely… [...]

Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives

Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He… [...]

Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a… [...]

Cold Court’s debut EP is an infectious, glitchy genre mashup

Cold Court is a brother-sister duo from Philly that seems to love nothing more than shoving all of their influences together in a messy soup that at least superficially resembles… [...]

Polymarket reportedly paid people to post fake videos of themselves placing bets

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive… [...]

How Roomba started a robot revolution

If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house,… [...]

Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew… [...]

Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans

The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the… [...]

Classic ticker

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- Terrence O’Brien
Cold Court’s debut EP is an infectious, glitchy genre mashup

Cold Court is a brother-sister duo from Philly that seems to love nothing more than shoving all of their influences together in a messy soup that at least superficially resembles… [...]

- Terrence O’Brien
That viral clip you saw of someone winning big on Polymarket was probably fake

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive… [...]

- David Pierce
How Roomba started a robot revolution

If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house,… [...]

- Andrew Hawkins
Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew… [...]

- Dominic Preston
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans

The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the… [...]